Cloud services will be one of the key revenue generators for operators over the next 24 months, according to data from the Telecoms.com Intelligence Industry Survey 2013, with over 80 per cent of respondents expecting operators to own their own cloud infrastructure within the next two years. Over 90 per cent expect operators to be selling cloud services within the same time frame.

With the launch of iOS6, Apple’s peer-to-peer video calling service – FaceTime – is available on 3G and 4G cellular networks.iOS6 is already on more than 100 million devices, a fair proportion of which will have access to cellular networks. That’s a lot of mobile users that could start FaceTime sessions on an operator’s network. And this is very early days.

Devices will continue to be the main driver of change in the telecoms industry, according to research published this week, but in terms of changing the behavior of users and their impact on mobile networks, they have only just scratched the surface. Analysis from Senza Fili Consulting carried out in January and February, picked up on small cells, VoLTE and wifi offload as three main technologies operators will use to derive revenues from mobile broadband.

As more websites move to encrypt their content and user data, more questions are raised over the future of Deep Packet Inspection. But advances in heuristic classification mean that DPI systems will still be able to function in an encrypted world.

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